Mahatma Gandhi


Rajmohan Gandhi in Switzerland: ‘Non-Violent Resistance is as relevant as ever!’

27 November, 2009
Rajmohan Gandhi spoke at a public lecture at the University of Geneva on the theme ‘The message of Mahatma Gandhi and Asia today’.

Rajmohan Gandhi spoke at a public lecture at the University of Geneva on the theme ‘The message of Mahatma Gandhi and Asia today’.

Lecture at Brown

15 November, 2009

Rajmohan Gandhi speaks about the links between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

'Gandhi's grandson visits UConn'

2 November, 2009

'Daily Campus', the largest daily college newspaper in the state of Connecticut, reports a talk at the University of Connecticut by Rajmohan Gandhi on the emergence and context of Gandhi's nonviolence, or ahimsa.

Power Through Renunciation

21 October, 2009

Review of 'Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire' in 'Tikkun' by Michael Nagler. "Having read all the standard biographies of Gandhi, as well as written a forward to the one that best captures his spiritual practice and spiritual significance [...], I was not prepared to be as educated, entertained, and inspired as I was by this mighty work of his grandson Rajmohan Gandhi."

'A message of peace and tolerance'

13 August, 2009

Deng Junbing has devoted much of the last seven years studying Gandhiji’s life, driven by the ambition of bringing his message of peace and tolerance to China. She discovered Gandhiji when she moved to India in 1998 along with her husband Zhou Gang, who served as China’s Ambassador to India until 2001. This week, her Chinese translation of The Good Boatman, the Mahatma’s biography by Rajmohan Gandhi, hits Beijing’s stands.

What would Gandhi do?

1 May, 2009

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The new President of Initiatives of Change International, Rajmohan Gandhi, shares his grandfather’s peace-building mission. Mike Lowe reports.

Gandhiji’s Grandsons Discuss Non-Violence And Ethnic Co-existence at San Diego Event

14 February, 2009

Two of the four surviving grandsons of Mahatma Gandhi visited the campus of the University of California, San Diego on Feb. 14 to participate in the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture series – and they did so to a standing-room-only audience.

Rajmohan Gandhi and Cleveland Indians

13 January, 2009

Rajmohan Gandhi, next to a statue of his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi, welcomes and praises the Cleveland Indian community for their love of Cleveland, the United States and India. He jokes about the baseball team, Cleveland Indians, and gives a message and wish for peace.

International Conference on Gandhian Thought

1 December, 2008 - 3 December, 2008

The Central European University (CEU) hosted an international conference on 'Gandhi in a Globalized World: Contemporary Relevance of Gandhian Thought'. The event reunited renowned scholars from all over the world, including Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster, Ashis Nandy, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Rajmohan Gandhi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Video of talk at the City Club of Cleveland

12 September, 2008

Rajmohan Gandhi, research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, speaks about his new biography of his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi. The talk is divided into four videos. The first is below, and for the other three use the related links.

One step of reconciliation, one step of bridge-building, one honest attempt to restore a divided relationship – and terrorism, extremism, receive a blow.

So long as our hearts are like that, rejoicing at the suffering of some people and pained at the suffering of others, we have to say to ourselves, 'My God, please do something to my heart.'

We judge ourselves by our ideals, but we judge the other side by their deeds.

Find modern ways for doing nonviolence. If you are willing to suffer but not inflict suffering, that’s very powerful.

The realization that the subcontinent was overflowing with the sort of ill-will I had entertained got me thinking...

Everybody can make obedience to conscience their goal. It can be a common goal that we all share.

If we demand rights and equality only for our group and not for all, they are no longer principles but just a political platform.

We have to allow our pain to give us greater love for others, greater understanding of their pain.

We are all the same underneath. There is something of the enemy in us and there is something of us in the enemy.

When we listen to the inner voice, some suggestions can come to us on what we can do. When leaders and led are connected to the inner voice, they are connected to one another.

Imperialism has no colour. Violence has no colour. Corruption has no colour.

Listening leads to dialogue and dialogue leads to partnership.

Gandhi Tour Graphic

Rajmohan Gandhi led a team to countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, Europe and the Americas, on a VOYAGE of DIALOGUE & DISCOVERY during the first half of 2010. Read reports

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